Thanks a bunch for the reviews, and I updated relatively quickly, huh? Umm, this is not a paire because Peter and Claire are related and I would rather not deal with incest. Oh, and I would also like to dedicate this entire chapter to Romako for sending me some great information and sticking with me. Thanks a bunch!
Disclaimer: Do I own Heroes? Umm, let me check. Looks at picture of Tim Kring, then me. Nope, no resemblance.
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Matt sat right next to Peter and Hiro's chairs.
"Pregnant?" Matt questioned.
Claire nodded shyly.
"Pregnant." Peter repeated. "How did this happen?"
She raised an eyebrow. "Well Peter, when a man and a woman love one another very, very much…"
Peter interrupted her. "It's Zach's isn't it?"
"It is."
Hiro suddenly got very excited. "A baby! Cheerleader Claire is going to have a baby!"
Claire laughed. "Well at least one of you guy's is happy about this." Claire looked like she was going to cry. She knew that this would not be accepted warmly among them but she was hoping for at least congratulations.
"I'm sorry," Matt said weakly, still in awe. But after reading Claire's mind, he added. "Congratulations."
"Thanks." Claire whimpered, a small tear running down her cheeks.
Peter felt a wave of guilt when he saw the lone tear. She was his niece; his best friend and he made her feel bad. He moved over to the bed and wiped the tear off her cheek.
"Don't cry." Peter comforted her.
"Can you not tell Nathan about this?" Claire requested.
Peter looked confused. "You are keeping the baby, right?" Claire nodded yes. "Then won't he find out eventually? It's hard to hide."
"I will tell him, but not now. Not until I am further in. If Nathan found out, now I know that he would push an abortion. I-I can't deal with that." She answered, her voice shaking with emotion.
Matt stood up and moved to the bed and looked guilty. "Umm, I did something I probably shouldn't have."
"What?" Hiro, Claire and Peter said, in near unison.
"I called Nathan on the way over here and told him that Claire was in the hospital." He said, rubbing the back of his neck uncomfortably.
Claire was outraged. "Why did you do that?"
"I'm sorry. I thought that her father should know that she was in the hospital."
As if on cue, Nathan came in the hospital room and went right next to her bed.
"Claire, are you okay?" Nathan asked, genuinely concerned.
"Yeah, I just fainted from exhaustion." Claire lied.
Nathan accepted it. "Do you need me to pay the medical bills?"
"That would be great, thanks."
The doctor came back in.
"So, I assume you told them all about your pregnancy. I want you to come back next month to check up on you and I can recommend you to someone who can take care of you with the rest of your pregnancy." The doctor smiled and took off a chart that was near the bed and left, completely missing the surprised and upset face that Nathan had put on.
"Pregnant?" Nathan's eyes looked like they were about to pop out of his head.
Peter stepped in. "Yeah, she is. Relax, Nathan."
"Relax?" Nathan yelled. "My daughter is pregnant at eighteen! What should I do, throw a party? Do you know how this will look in the elections?"
"About as good as having an illegitimate daughter." Matt muttered, but Nathan still heard him.
"Shut up, Parkman!" Nathan snapped. "You re getting rid of it. You are to young to have a baby."
Claire's temper flamed after hearing this. "How dare you? This is my child, my body and I am not going to get rid of this child, you bastard!"
Matt, Peter, Hiro and Nathan were shocked at Claire's rage. She was not easy tempered all the time, but they had never heard her curse in anger.
"I-I can't deal with this. I'll pay the bills but then I am going to go. Cool off." Nathan said and left the room.
"The doctor said I could leave once the bolls were paid. I'll be there in a sec. Let me change." Claire told them and grabbed her clothes and headed into the bathroom in her room and closed her door. Peter, Matt, and Hiro just sat there and sighed, trying to gather their thoughts. They did not talk until they heard sobs coming from the bathroom.
Matt walked up to the bathroom and knocked. "Claire, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Claire replied, stepping out of the bathroom with her regular clothes on.
However, to the contrary of what she just said, her eyes were red and there were traces of tears on her cheeks.
Hiro ran over and gave her a small hug and Claire returned the sweet gesture.
"Thank you Hiro." She told him.
"No problem, Cheerleader Claire." Hiro told her which made Claire grin. He hardly ever just called her Claire. It was always Cheerleader Claire, or sometimes just, Cheerleader. At first, Claire hated it. She wanted Peter, Hiro and Matt to think of her as an adult, not just a high school cheerleader. But then, after he called her that many times, she enjoyed it, thought it was cute. Nonetheless, if anyone besides Hiro called her that, she would get upset and sometimes yell.
"We'll make it through this, Claire." Peter said.
"What about Sylar? What about the bomb? Where will this kid live?" She panicked.
Peter took her, and gently grabbed her shoulders so she looked at him straight in the eye.
"We will make it through this, Claire," Peter repeated, then added a sincere. "I promise."
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